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Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

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In a March 21, 2007 email to Tressel, which was provided to the Plain Dealer, a source gave the following warning about the alleged online activities of Talbott, a Columbus-based freelance photographer who also is involved in memorabilia sales:

"He has sold over 50 items with underclassmen signatures before their eligibility expires and would seem to be someone that both you and the university is aware of. I have a full report of his eBay activities if you would like to explore further or require documentation."
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Geeze... it just hit me. Which is worse - if we went on "to explore further" and get more documentation back then - or just did nothing in response?

That's like an NCAA sales person asking, "And would you like that in a LOIC or a cover-up? "
 
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I have to admit that I was ready for a regime change (i.e., Tressel) at OSU before this stuff became public (tired of the poor OL and QB coaching, bad/overly conservative offense and the micro-managing to the detriment of the offense and the team). I never expected that Tressel was waist deep in the swamp (I thought this stuff only happened in the SEC), but he was. I think most (almost all) of the blame falls at Tressel's feet. It appears that he thought he was bigger than Ohio State and Ohio State football but he isn't. Now the university, the football team and the fans are left with his mess. I hope it ends soon, but if its true he was warned back in 2007 about this guy and (apparently) did little (certainly not enough) this is going to continue for a while. I am very glad he is gone and I hope that Fickell is a vast improvement both on and off the field.
 
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redstatebuckeye;1938494; said:
I have to admit that I was ready for a regime change (i.e., Tressel) at OSU before this stuff became public (tired of the poor OL and QB coaching, bad/overly conservative offense and the micro-managing to the detriment of the offense and the team). I never expected that Tressel was waist deep in the swamp (I thought this stuff only happened in the SEC), but he was. I think most (almost all) of the blame falls at Tressel's feet. It appears that he thought he was bigger than Ohio State and Ohio State football but he isn't. Now the university, the football team and the fans are left with his mess. I hope it ends soon, but if its true he was warned back in 2007 about this guy and (apparently) did little (certainly not enough) this is going to continue for a while. I am very glad he is gone and I hope that Fickell is a vast improvement both on and off the field.
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Good luck with that, bro.

I've resisted speaking my mind on this subject, but attacks on Tressel's character will not be tolerated. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's going to take Fickell a few years before he favorably compares to a Hall of Fame, 5 NC winning head coach.

You're throwing around terms like "blame" and "his mess". Blame for what? Not disclosing that his players were partaking in NCAA violations? I agree. The whole mess is the result of players knowingly committing NCAA violations. I entirely believe that Tressel internally takes care of issues that come up. Apparently once Tressel was notified of TP at a golf course, the visits stopped. When Tressel found out his players were selling memorabilia at a tattoo shop, it stopped. I'd assume you could probably find a lot of other cases were players were breaking the rules and Tressel took care of it internally. And I'd also guess that a lot of schools handle issues internally.
 
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SC would have been subject to "open season" if their school was subject to FOIA requests as are state universities.
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Maybe... The paper that covers them the most closely is actually the OC Register; my take is that the LATimes has bigger things to do, and is a "Tribune" company (not headquartered ultimately in LA).

In Columbus, I think the media pretty much has Ohio State and that's it.
 
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